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George
Luks was born on August 13, 1867 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Luks
received his first art instruction from his parents who pursued
painting as a hobby. At seventeen he entered the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts. Later he went to Düsseldorf where he lived with a distant
relative, a retired lion-tamer. He abandoned Düsseldorf for the more
stimulating spheres of London and Paris. When he returned to America he
worked as an artist for Philadelphia newspapers. In 1896 he was sent t (showing 500 of 10403 characters).

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